Today’s text:Today’s text: Luke 8:4-5, 9-10, 11-12Luke 8:4-5, 9-10, 11-12

Today’s message:Today’s message: Let’s Talk about DirtLet’s Talk about Dirt

Seed along the path – practices have changed

• Sowing

• Scattering

• Trampling

Let’s Talk about DirtLet’s Talk about Dirt

Secrets about the Path – spiritual understanding

• Full Disclosure / Revealing

• Partial Understanding / Withholding

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Let’s Talk about DirtLet’s Talk about Dirt

Stealing from the Path

• Hearing

• Taking

• Bitterness

• Lack of forgiveness

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Let’s Talk about DirtLet’s Talk about Dirt

If being trampled on is not a matter of if but when then “How do we respond?”

The privilege of seeing & understanding the Kingdom of God is for everyone who responds to the message of the cross by faith.

Lack of forgiveness according to the Bible is non-negotiable. We must forgive.

Things to remember and practiceThings to remember and practice